Impact & Sustainability News From Leading Brands

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Responsible Production & Consumption

North America's Building Trades Unions and Ørsted Agree To Build an American Offshore Wind Energy Industry With American Labor

A first in the U.S., the National Offshore Wind Agreement sets industry on a course to build an equitable offshore workforce with family-sustaining careers

Health & Healthcare

Men Press Snooze on Their Health Care, New Survey Finds

Men aren’t paying enough attention to their personal health care and they’re particularly tight lipped when it comes to mental health, according to the newly released Aflac Men’s Health Survey.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Bringing Financial Clarity to ESG Investing

Global Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship Julie Moret shares insight on evaluating ESG factors as pre-financial indicators and how they play a role in future-proofing portfolios.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Do You Know What Your Employees Really Think About Their Jobs?

The cost to replace an employee is about one-third an annual salary—if not more expensive for experienced or highly specialized workers.

Innovation & Technology

Partnership With Bravo Motor Company Offers Cutting-Edge Solutions for EV Battery Manufacturing

Rockwell Automation announced a partnership with Bravo Motor Company. With the new alliance, Rockwell will contribute to cutting-edge solutions for the manufacture of batteries and electric vehicles in Brazil, based on the circular economy.

Environment

Swimming in Plastic Potential: The Innovation That's Turning Trash Into Cash

Turning ‘trash into cash’ – the latest spark to emerge from Ericsson ONE, Ericsson’s internal accelerator for intrapreneurs – is one of many breakthrough technologies that is using the circular economy model to tackle the plastic crisis head on.

Environment

Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) Announces New Collaboration With UN-Habitat’s Cities Investment Facility

New collaboration between Resilient Cities Catalyst and UN-Habitat will identify and solve bottlenecks for projects currently in the Cities Investment Facility pipeline, helping to bring resilience projects to reality in cities around the globe.

Diversity & Inclusion

Quest Diagnostics Celebrates Culture of Inclusion by Raising Pride Flags

We’re proud to celebrate our culture of inclusion this month with the raising of the Pride Flag at our facilities across the country.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Fifth Third Bank, Employees, Customers Provide More Than 8.4 Million Meals for Those in Need

Fifth Third Bank’s “Feeding Our Communities” initiative, held each year in May, this year provided more than 8.4 million meals to fight hunger across its footprint. The total far exceeded the 5.3 million-meals goal the company set for its 2022 effort

Environment

5 Questions for Polar Explorer Robert Swan

Three decades ago, polar explorer Robert Swan became the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles. Since his epic trek, he has dedicated himself to protecting those regions by bringing others along.

Research, Reports & Publications

Boeing Releases 2022 Sustainability Report, Maps Sustainable Aerospace Progress

Boeing [NYSE: BA] today released its annual Sustainability Report, which further defines the company’s sustainability goals and includes key metrics to measure progress of core enterprise priorities.

Health & Healthcare

Illumina Invests in £30M Venture Fund To Advance Breakthroughs in Human Health

Illumina, Inc. announced its participation in Time Boost Capital I LP, a £30 million genomics venture fund dedicated to providing match funding to startups graduating from Illumina Accelerator with the aim to advance breakthroughs in human health.

Energy

Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Essential for Deep, Rapid Decarbonization

Energy storage is now recognized as an essential feature of a modernized, decarbonized electricity grid.

Social Impact & Volunteering

The Purpose of Community Day at Paramount

As a company, giving back is a part of Paramount’s DNA. So while our employees can volunteer, come together, and be a part of something bigger on Community Day, our commitment to service extends beyond a single occurrence.

Diversity & Inclusion

T-Mobile Pride Spotlight: I Have Impact

Meet Ellis and hear about his coming out story.

Green Infrastructure

Coming Soon: Charge Your Car at a Power Pole

Soon, ordinary streetlights, street poles and transformers along Southern California roads will have an extraordinary role to play in the electric transportation revolution, thanks to an innovative pilot program.

Diversity & Inclusion

Marathon Petroleum Helping El Paso Neighborhoods Close the Digital Divide

Using the internet is a routine part of life across most of the U.S., but not in the 79905 ZIP code of El Paso, Texas.

Green Infrastructure

Ensuring a Coherent Pathway to Decarbonize EU Buildings

We at Chemours support ambitious and binding renovation rates for all buildings across the EU.

Environment

Hormel Foods to Invest in Carbon Sequestration, Air and Water Quality

Hormel Foods, and Target along with MBOLD are supporting an innovative agriculture pilot project focusing on advances in soil health practices to improve water and air quality, sequester greenhouse gasses and increase farmland profitability.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Recertified by Great Place to Work®

Trane Technologies has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the second year in a row. The recertification recognizes employers who create an outstanding employee experience and is based on feedback from current Trane Technologies employees.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Harnessing Goodness When Disaster or Crisis Strikes

Gain the knowledge and tools you’ll need to activate a disaster and crisis relief campaign quickly, and discover how you can make a real difference to the impacted communities and your customers the next time they look to you in times of need.

Energy

CNH Industrial Journey to Electrification

As a testament to the long-lasting efforts towards sustainability, CNH Industrial has a long tradition in the electric vehicle sector and is determined to continue its journey.

Environment

How the Fashion Industry Is Tackling Three Major Impacts on Our Ocean - Bringing Hope for the Decade of the Ocean

We owe the ocean a lot and the fashion industry, which is responsible for around 2-8 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions has responded to this.

Environment

Podcast: Designing Net Zero Labs

Laboratories are extraordinarily intricate and complex structures that often require a large amount of energy, water and chemicals to function.

Innovation & Technology

Dow Supports Automotive Sustainability Goals With New Moldable Optical Silicone

Dow launched SILASTIC™ MS-5002 Moldable Silicone, a specialized liquid silicone rubber (LSR) featuring very low mold fouling for faster cycle times and high-quality optics in automotive adaptive driving beam (ADB) light guides.

Latest Campaigns

  1. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  2. ESG Recognition
    While our commitment to being a responsible corporation is not dependent on recognition, it is a great validation of our work when external...
  3. Aflac Stories
    Get a closer look at the people, products and stories that make Aflac the company we know today.
  4. America's Charities Employee Engagement & Social Responsibility
    More than ever, retaining and recruiting employees is a top priority for companies. Aware of the link between workplace giving and employee engagement...
  5. KeyBank Foundation: Helping Communities Thrive through Education, Workforce Development, and Service
    KeyBank Foundation helps build thriving communities by supporting organizations and programs that foster thriving students and a thriving workforce...
  6. Sustainable Products and Innovation
    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  7. AEG's Commitment to Social Impact and Volunteerism
    AEG embraces its responsibility to enrich the lives of people in the communities around the world where we do business, and to use business to create...
  8. Growth Through Sustainability
    Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator with a clear purpose to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. See how embedding...
  9. Goals That Inspire: Environmental Stewardship
    Through our Goals That Inspire we have established aggressive commitments with targeted and measurable metrics which will require innovation...
  10. Leading ESG & Sustainability Stewardship
    The new CNH continues on its longstanding path of excellence in sustainability, which is recognized by the foremost authorities.
  11. KeyBank's Community Investment
    In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
  12. Recognition of our Company
    As the leading sports and live music company in the world, we recognize our responsibility to provide industry leadership and to conduct our business...
  13. Tork, an Essity brand
    Tork is an Essity brand. Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Wherever there is a need for wiping, drying, cleaning or polishing...
  14. Aflac Insights
    Learn more about Aflac’s survey findings to better understand workplace trends as well as consumer attitudes, habits and opinions toward health and...
  15. Technology for Good
    We believe that technology, when thoughtfully and strategically applied, can bring positive, lasting change to people’s lives and communities and...